Example sentences of "[noun sg] become the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labels were shifted about , the Higher School Certificate became the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level , but it was many years before new pressures distorted the ancient simplicities . |
| 2 | Champagne became the sole refreshment , and topless girls sported trays of Havana cigars and hashish cigarettes . |
| 3 | Such dreary teaching could be eliminated if literature were separated from language , theory from practice , and literature became the chosen subject only for those who had a particular aptitude for it , or a desire to learn to criticize and analyse . |
| 4 | It was presented , to Darlington Harrier Andy Campbell , when the race was established as an open event in 1904 and given to Duncan McLeod-Wright to keep when the Scottish runner became the first man to win three times , in 1929 . |
| 5 | Last year The Mary Whitehouse Experience became the first TV programme to be reported to the Broadcasting Standards Council after a derogatory sketch about Going For Gold star Henry Kelly was shown . |
| 6 | As Julian Leff points out : ‘ it seems likely that if the uniqueness of the individual 's inner experience became the dominant value in society , the bonds between people would be so attenuated that such a society would probably not be viable . ’ |
| 7 | No major developments in military technology occurred but , significantly , in 1704 pikes were finally phased out , and in 1706 a musket and socket-bayonet became the standard small-arm . |
| 8 | With the unforeseen addition of partly suspended sentences when the Bill reached the Commons , the resulting measure became the Criminal Law Act 1977 , finally amounting to sixty-five sections and fourteen schedules . |
| 9 | Moreover , the relative value of gold to silver was much lower in western Europe than it was further east , in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds , so gold tended to leave western Europe and silver became the principal medium for coinage . |
| 10 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 11 | The first 16-bit generation was won hands-down by MS-DOS with Macintosh System in second place — and winning a moral victory by setting the agenda for what should have been the 32-bit generation but in effect became the second 16-bit generation , which seems to have been won by Microsoft Windows , even though for the majority , MS-DOS is all most people want or use . |
| 12 | ANYTHING you can do … seven weeks after a Coventry Courtaulds employee became the proud father of quads a colleague in Grimsby went two better by becoming dad to sextuplets . |
| 13 | In November 1990 , a man convicted of multiple rape and murder became the first person in Tunisia to be executed since the President came to power in 1987 . |
| 14 | In some stations the train-shed became the central feature , an eye-catching shape dwarfing an insignificant frontage : thus , for instance Manchester Central ( 1880 ) , 210 ft. , and Liverpool Central ( 1874 ) , 169 ft . |
| 15 | The third defendant became the managing director of C.M.C. at or soon after its incorporation . |
| 16 | Survey research became the paradigmatical method of sociology . |
| 17 | It must in effect become the actual embodiment of the idealized , phantasied parent of early childhood , the parent who is omnipresently nurturing , omnisciently caring and omnipotently protecting . |
| 18 | If the houses are bought by the council then the occupants remain secure tenants , but if a private landlord or a housing association becomes the new owner then occupants become assured tenants . |
| 19 | If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code . |
| 20 | There is also the village of Ackworth , where Geoff Boycott took his first faltering steps at the crease to become the greatest cricketer that the world has ever seen and a great Yorkshireman . |
| 21 | In municipal elections in Passau ( Bavaria ) on Sept. 21 the extreme right Republicans Party doubled its vote , winning five seats and 11 per cent of the vote to become the third-largest party on the town council . |
| 22 | Although the Democrats increased their share of the vote , the party 's leader Janine Haines failed in her bid to become the first candidate from a minor party since 1966 to win a seat in the 148-seat House of Representatives . |
| 23 | McCarthy 's bid to become the Democratic nominee for president was getting up steam , and his following included the liberal Hollywood establishment , among them Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Robert Redford and Warren Beatty . |
| 24 | Their ambition to become the greatest busker of them all . |
| 25 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 26 | He quickly established its critical reputation and the Institute became the focal point of specialist dissent from the official line . |
| 27 | The simple truth is that for the duration of the tours rugby became the political football in the power-broking struggle currently being played out between the various factions in South African politics . |
| 28 | After 1945 this philosophy became the conventional wisdom and governments accepted that they had a responsibility for macroeconomic management , predominantly through their own fiscal position . |
| 29 | This , at length , came under the control of Virgin , as the principal British investors , and The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle became the first production of a new company , Virgin Films . |
| 30 | Accordingly , manpower budgeting became the central task of wartime planning . |